Motivational Quotes

Past

It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.

- Steiner, George

Best Quotes about Past

It's very expressive of myself. I just lump everything in a great heap which I have labeled the past, and, having thus emptied this deep reservoir that was once myself, I am ready to continue.

Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution; whatsoever is now, was heretofore; and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4am of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

Didion, Joan

The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.

Ovid

The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

Moon, William Least Heat

The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train.

Proust, Marcel

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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If you look back too much, you will soon be headed that way

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I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,

Barnard, Charlotte

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It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

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The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

Weil, Simone

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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the past.

Wright, Charles

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The past, though it cannot be relived, can always be repaired.

La Farge, John

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May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.

Dickson, Paul

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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Steiner, George

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Your past is important, but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your future.

Campolo, Tony

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Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

Fredrich

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To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.

Givens, Charles J.

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If you're still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today.

Chapman, Joyce

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You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?

Whitman, Walt

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If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.

Brown, Les

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I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

Sandburg, Carl

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If you must cry over spilled milk then please try to condense it

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Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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Those who do remember it will find new ways to screw it up.

Wolfe, Charles

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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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The rewards in life go to those who are willing to give up the past

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While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

Reagan, Ronald

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Living in the past has one thing going for it; it's cheaper!

Saying

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The people who get into trouble in our company are those who carry around the anchor of the past.

Welch, John

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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

Waitley, Denis

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The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.

Dunne, Finley Peter

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If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change.

Hewison, Robert

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Things without remedy, should be without regard; what is done, is done.

Shakespeare, William

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The beauty of the past is that it is the past. The beauty of the now is to know it. The beauty of the future is to see where one is going.

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The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Einstein, Albert

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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

Douglass, Frederick

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Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten.

Proverb, German

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There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternally new now that builds and creates itself out of the Best as the past withdraws.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

Berger, John

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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius